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Title: CCNP(R): Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting Study Guide (642-831) by Arthur Pfund, Todd Lammle, Sybex ISBN: 0-7821-4295-8 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 05 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.24 (17 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Too Much Filler; "Troubleshooting Lite"
Comment: I bought this book as a companion to my Cisco Press troubleshooting book, but in the last few weeks, I found myself referring to this book less and less.
There is some good information, but if you are taking CIT as your last or next-to-last exam, a good deal of material is copied directly from the earlier Sybex books in the series. Nothing wrong with going over the material -- after all, you're learning to troubleshoot the material you've learned previously -- but I felt like a lot of this book was simply regurgitating earlier books instead of giving me fresh insight.
As I said, there were some good points. The chapter on troubleshooting methodology had some good examples, and having screen output for the commands helps those who don't have routers of their own to experiement with. Even that goes to extremes, though. At times there are pages and pages of redundant screen output when they need to be putting more solid information in.
Also, there's not much information on the actual contents of frames in different protocols. For those of us working with CCIE in mind while working on our CCNP, that's detail that shouldn't be left out. Overall, the lack of detail in this book really surprised and disappointed me.
You might very well be able to pass the exam with just this book if passing the exam is your sole goal. For those of us looking for more detail (and the exam has plenty of that!), I would recommend the Cisco Press book over this one.
Rating: 1
Summary: Unacceptable absence of detail!
Comment: This book just pastes in the output of Cisco commands without any adequate explainations. Obviously the authors know less about the material than many of the readers...
Notice that all the "positive" reviews give no details as to what's good about this book. I guess Lammle and Co. are going to have to submit more "reviews" to compensate for this bit of realism...
Rating: 3
Summary: Not Sybex's best bot a good study guid
Comment: This is not the usual Sybex study guide quality but it's still a good book. I purchased it with the expetation of being a great book and it fell short. To me there was a lot of filler that didn't need to be there. I would have liked to have seen more meat and less potato's...I know potato's fill pages but the meat is what you need to pass the test.
This book will help you prepare for the CIT exam but will not get you there.
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Title: CCNP: Remote Access Study Guide, 3rd Edition (642-821) by Scott A. Wells, Robert Padjen, Scott A. Well ISBN: 0782142966 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 19 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: CCNP: Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks Study Guide (642-811) by Terry Jack ISBN: 078214294X Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 05 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: CCNP: BSCI Study Guide, 2nd Edition (642-801) by Carl Timm, Wade Edwards ISBN: 0782142931 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 06 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: CCNP CIT Exam Certification Guide (CCNP Self-Study, 642-831), Second Edition by Amir Ranjbar ISBN: 1587200813 Publisher: Cisco Press Pub. Date: 05 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: CCNP CIT Exam Cram 2 (642-831) by Sean Odom ISBN: 0789730219 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 08 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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